Two weeks ago I mentioned that I knew I was guilty of not paying much attention to my blog. You can choose to pretend you are handling your website, until you get hacked. That’s exactly what happened to me earlier this year. Sad thing is I didn’t even come to find out until about two …

I’ve pretty much all but decided that I will not be working with Textpattern anymore. It seems too much work when Wordpress does most of what I want so easily. However, I still have one website that is running on a custom Textpattern backend, so once in a while I need solutions geared towards Textpattern. Today I found a great little nugget that I hope will help others.

I love blogs. I love setting them up. I especially love to see a blog I’ve setup for someone get used. About the only thing I really don’t love about blogs is the comment spam. To get 4 or 5 emails with the same generic spam is just annoying…and my friend Garret agrees. So when he called me for help in adding some stricter monitoring of comments for his blog, I was delighted to find reCAPTCHA.